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Is there a way we can allow community members to explain why they think a post is spam?
Is there anything we can do so community members can add more details as to why they are flagging a specific post as spam?
They can/should be using custom moderator flags if it's not obvious the post ...
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Even with bounty, I do not get much attention
That's true, we need more visitors, and especially more people who can answer questions.
When I see recommendation questions getting closed on StackOverflow, I always encourage askers to ask at SR. ...
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Would single-vote closure be helpful here?
This would be very welcome here!
There are always a hundred questions in review, and the volume of incoming off-topic questions is such that our community is not able to reduce the backlog despite ...
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Merge [tag:speech-synthesis] with [tag:text-to-speech]
They seem similar enough to me too. Any objections out there?
Let's give it a couple weeks, and if no one objects, let's make it happen.
Update: No objections from anyone, so I made this happen. ...
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Is there a way we can allow community members to explain why they think a post is spam?
Yeah, flagging on the *Recs.SE sites is harder in general because some of the usual spam indicators don't hold up.The largest problem with red flags is that, due to their inherent penalty, they tend ...
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markup - ticks & crosses
Can everyone see these Unicode symbols properly?
✅ : Yes
❌ : No
Here is how they look on Ubuntu 2018.04:
Benefits:
Visually appealing
Faster to read
Easier to compare
Help make sure that answers ...
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Could would add an electronjs tag?
I created the electron tag.
Out of the 5 questions you linked to, 2 were links to answers that use electron. I did not apply the tag to them, since tags are for questions (you would not see a ...
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Can we get a close reason saying "Not enough information"?
Unfortunately it seems that we can not create top-level close reasons, they have to be within "off-topic". This results in this notice being shown to all readers:
PROBLEM: The question is not off-...
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How to escalate or request another moderator's review on a deleted answer?
Summing up from the comments, adn adding some details:
We moderators ar "common people" like you – so we also sometimes make mistakes. Also, from time to time we might disagree on how to handle a ...
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markup - ticks & crosses
I think allowing emojis (:white_check_mark:) like Github is not a problem.
Some solutions:
StackEdit addon (browsers only)
Emoji to AHK script (Windows only)
AutoHotKey or PhraseExpress for ...
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